Flowers

I shot this rose today after some showers passed through. The rain was good for the garden, that's for sure!

Taken with a little Mini Shot 110 camera. The reason there is a huge light leak is because I used this roll of film in 4 different cameras and kept switching it out. I only took one picture on the roll in this camera, so, so far, this is the only shot taken with this camera. Kodak Gold 400 21b

I'd never seen these flowers before I planted some in my front yard this year. The package said they come in different colors, but they had all been white until this one popped up. They grow about 5 or 6 feet high, so they really show.

Another one of my roses that bloomed the other day. I'm just practicing with different programs and effects. How else do you get better unless you practice, eh?

One of my roses from earlier this year. I used the Orton Effect on it.

I saw this little bumblebee on my flowers just a few moments ago.

Another Cosmos flower from my front yard. Taken yesterday.

The same rose I posted before, only before I did the post-processing to make it look like an old manuscript. For this version, all it had done to it was I tried using the Orton Effect on it. A friend of mine here on Ipernity turned me on to that wonderful little trick! Thanks, Norm!

The beetle is very small - the flowers themselves are only about a half inch in diameter.

A closeup of a dandelion flower, and you can see that there are lots of tiny little ants all over it. Taken on May 21st, 2014 with my Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W710 digital point and shoot camera.

I saw these white flowers in Washington, D.C. while on a class trip in 1979. I don't know what kind they were, but I'm almost certain I saw them at or near the Smithsonian.

Handheld shot taken with my Super Paragon PMC II Auto Tele Zoom 80-200mm zoom lens connected to my Minolta 2X MA Converter-S converter and attached to my Sony Alpha A230 DSLR. Taken on March 16th, 2010. These were some flowers in my yard.

One of the bushes that grow in my front yard. This is one that has white flowers, the other one has purple flowers. (Or so I've been told.) I'm not sure what kind ot is, so if anybody recognizes it, please let me know. Camera: Pentax K1000 Lens: SMC Pentax-A 28mm, f2.8 wide angle lens Film: Kodak Tri-X, B&W 400 ISO Aperture: F/8 Shutter speed: 1/60th sec. Date: May 9th, 2014, 3.12 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing process, chemicals were at 68 degrees: Ilford ID11 developer: 7 mins. Ilford Ilfostop stop bath: 1 min. Ilford Hypam fixer: 7 mins. Water wash: 4 mins. Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 min. Pentax Tri-X TSC 34df